A Warped Kaiba (harharhar)
How long has it been since I wrote an actual, well, anime review? It’s fitting that my first regular, non-video entry has to do with my favorite show so far this year.
Kaiba 6-7: Boys and Girls
Posted by Mike on 16 Jun 2008 at 9:02 pm | Tagged as: 2008 Q2--Spring, Kaiba
At some point, this show about exchangeable bodies was going to have to talk about gender and all that it entails. So we have these episodes.
Kaiba 5 - The Skin Trade
Posted by Mike on 26 May 2008 at 12:01 am | Tagged as: 2008 Q2--Spring, Kaiba
Kaiba 4 - The Little Prince(ss)?
Posted by Mike on 08 May 2008 at 11:19 pm | Tagged as: 2008 Q2--Spring, Kaiba
I was trying to figure out why, with this episode in particular, this series felt strangely familiar. That’s when it hit me: structurally, Kaiba is beginning to resemble Antoine de St-Exupery’s fable, The Little Prince. (Full text and illustrations of The Little Prince can be found here.) That would help explain the increasingly episodic feel of the story thus far and even some of the art style.
Kaiba 3 - In Memoriam
Posted by Mike on 06 May 2008 at 12:04 am | Tagged as: 2008 Q2--Spring, Kaiba
This astonishingly affecting and effectively told episode of Kaiba shows that the issue of memory and identity isn’t just something that tickles the intellect. It goes straight to the heart of who we are as humans.
Kaiba 2 - Sex for Gnostics?
Posted by Mike on 30 Apr 2008 at 11:23 pm | Tagged as: 2008 Q2--Spring, Kaiba
That was one of the strangest explorations of sexuality that I’ve ever seen in anime. Or, at least, it beats maid robots and right-hand girlfriends.
First Look Fair: Kaiba
Posted by Mike on 22 Apr 2008 at 11:49 pm | Tagged as: 2008 Q2--Spring, Kaiba
Our bodies, and not ourselves? This most unusual anime–if it can even be called that in the usual sense–is certainly intriguing, but it’s also far too early to tell what to make of it.
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